Organised excursions are the best way to see the islands - on the days we tried to go solo, everything was pre-booked - and also the only way to reach the motus, small private islands separated from the mainland by lagoon.

44) Important and widely-used terms such as tempus (time), motus (movement), mutatio (change), quies (rest), instans (instant), and punctus (point) look like ordinary nouns; hence people are tempted to search for things behind these nouns, as if they are absolute terms signifying some one thing totally distinct from individual things.

Aided by his goggles and Adobe Photoshop, a software program that magnifies and sharpens the letters, he reads the manuscript's heading: Queritur de genere motus corporum (on the movement of glorified bodies).

Carole O'Brien's Motus Maestro, the first French-language drama to be made independently in Manitoba, was screened at the World Festival of Short Films in Huy, Belgium; Richard Condie's La salla won Best Animated Short at the Vancouver film fest.

The last mountaintop destination was the most spectacular of all: a World War II American gun emplacement that commanded a sweeping view of just about everything worth seeing on Bora Bora: channels, motus, cruise ships, towns, bays and resorts.

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